Step one: Skynet Step two: Overlord MS Clippy Step three: Profit
People did talk about that though. There were so many allusions to Clippy when Copilot was launched, and even before that.
On a side note, we can also bring back Bonzi Buddy 😂
we can finally Ask Jeeves
Alright, let’s not dogpile onto this, everyone.
Do you want an AI Tamagotchi?
And just for that extra bit of curse that the world needs these days: “Bonzi Buddy II is dedicated to the memory of Harambe”
Based on Google Gemini and the sheer number of restrictions Microsoft had to place on Bing to prevent chaos.
I think saying that it “works” is a stretch.
I think AI works well as an assistant for creative problems. But businesses are shoving large language models on everything they can think of. It’s basically a fad.
Doctors recommend that you smell glue to make your head cold go away
I often worry that the last thing we’ll all read is Clippy on every screen in the world saying “It looks like your planet is running out of oxygen. Bet you’d like some help now, huh bitch!”
I heard this in Jack McBrayer‘s voice
…often?
Many such cases
Monthly at least
Drop all this ai hooha and bring back bonzi buddy
Maybe a modern Clippy would be great, but original Clippy was so annoying I’m not willing to give it a chance.
It looks like you are trying to point something out. I can help with that. 📎
It loons like you’re trying to make pizza… can I recommend a vintage Elmer’s Glue?
It’s just revealing that we never actually needed a clippy in the first place. An “assistant” in tech isn’t actually as useful as people assumed it would be.
That’s what I figured. Everything the assisstant does for you will be done faster with the right know how and experience
Nah, I’d love to be able to ask an assistant to make sense of the dog shit layout in word, instead of having to blindly click at menus for 10 minutes, then finally give up and Google for 10 more minutes, all because Microsoft thought it would be cool and intuitive to split menus into “view”, “review”, “layout” and “design”, because those words don’t basically all mean the same thing.
June 28, 2023:
Almost wanna offer an API key to someone willing to test it… :) Must be a pretty simple wrapper.
You do not get clippy. You get Office365, Edge, copilot and recall
Clippy can get reincarnated with AI, but it will still be crappy.
An AI-powered Clippy… have we learned nothing from Star Trek Lower Decks about what can go wrong with this??
